With the Terminal, Windows has a common interface for Powershell, Command Prompt, and Azure Cloud Shell. This allows you to start the terminal directly with the command prompt.

Command Prompt and Windows PowerShell are also simple and built-in options covered in this post for this purpose. We have already seen how to open a file or folder using Command Prompt or PowerShell.

If you want to open Windows Terminal as an administrator, you have to launch the Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell as an administrator and run the same command mentioned above.

Method 2: Open Elevated Command Prompt via Power User Menu Opening an elevated command prompt using Power User menu is applicable to Windows 8 or Windows 10 only and not available on older versions.

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